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2013 Event - A small pyrotechnics show ignited foram sound insulating material in the ceiling of Kiss, a crowded, windowless nightclub in southern Brazil's city of Santa Maria, killing 237 partygoers and injuring 169 others

2012 Event - A Union Pacific train strikes a parade float in Midland, Teas, killing four people and injuring 17 others

2012 Event - Half of the population of New York City, and millions of others in the Northeastern United States continue to deal with power outages, gas shortages and limited public transportation after Hurricane Sandy struck; the death toll rises to 90

2012 Event - The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is attacked by terrorists; U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed as well as three others; the Cairo embassy was also attacked

2012 Event - A pop concert celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee takes place at Buckingham Palace, featuring artists Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, among others

2012 Event - More than 700 writers, academics and others send a letter to protest the planned spending of $300 million on the Fifth Avenue Branch of the New York Public Library

2012 Event - A mortar in Horns, Syria, kills a friend journalist along with eight others

2011 Event - At least 20 Navy SEALs and 17 others die when a NATO Chinook helicopter crashes after being shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan

2010 Event - Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen's company Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement suit against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook and others

2010 Event - A series of bomb explosions in Baghdad, near Shia mosques, kill dozens of people and wound 100 others

2010 Event - Renewed tribal clashes in Sudan's South Darfur state result in 52 civilians killed and 55 others wounded

2010 Event - Former Phillipine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and 196 others are charged with murder relating to the Maguindanao massacre, November 2009

1999 Death - Payne Stewart, professional golfer, won the U.S. Open, 1991 and 1999, won PGA Championship in 1989, among others, dies in Mina, South Dakota, at age 42, due to hypoxia from depressurization of a Learjet

1999 Death - Jean Shepherd, writer/radio artist, ", In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, ", dies at 78

1997 Event - Mark McGwire, is 4th to home run on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, and Cecil Fielder)

1996 Event - Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas and Alabama)

1993 Death - George Mickelson, Governor of South Dakota, and 7 others, die in a plane crash

1989 Death - Mickey Leland, Representative-D-Texas 1979 - 1989, and 15 others die in plane crash in Ethiopia

1985 Event - Dave Concepcion becomes 4th Cincinnati Red teammate to get 2,000 hits, others include Pete Rose, Tony Perez and Cesar Cedeno

1982 Event - Roy Williams, Teamsters president, and 4 others convicted of bribery

1982 Event - Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)

1980 Event - 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott

1980 Death - William R Tolbert, Jr., Liberian President and 27 others killed in coup

1977 Event - Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11

1976 Death - Chris Kenner, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others, dies

1972 Birthday - Amanda Marshall, born in Toronto, Canada, singer, multi-platinum album, 'Tuesday's Child', others include, 'Everybody's Got a Story'

1971 Event - U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons

1971 Event - Federal grand jury indicts Reverend Philip Berrigan and 5 others, including a nun and 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger

1966 Birthday - Samuel West, born in England, actor, theater director, appeared in 'Howards End', 'Jane Eyre', Van Helsing', 'Notting Hill' , 'Complicity' films, among others

1963 Event - South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy

1959 Birthday - Terry Hall, born in Coventry, England, singer, The Specials, member of Fun Boy Three, The Colourfield, collaborated with Sinead O'Connor, David A Stewart and others

1957 Birthday - Payne Stewart, professional golfer, won the U.S. Open, 1991 and 1999, won PGA Championship in 1989, among others

1956 Event - Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa

1954 Birthday - John Kimmel, born in East Orange, New Jersey, John C. Kimmel, horse trainer, trained at University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, trained famous horses, Better Than Honour, Premium Tap, wins include Florida Derby, 2004, Pennsylvania Derby, 2007, among others

1952 Event - Nelson Mandela and 51 others infringe South Africa curfew

1947 Birthday - John C. Maxwell, born in Garden City, Michigan, evangelical Christian, author, pastor, speaker, leadership expert, wrote over 50 books on leadership, sold over 13 million copies including 'Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow'

1946 Birthday - David Liebman, born in Brooklyn, New York, musician, rocker, saxaphonist, flautist, worked with Steve Swallow, Pete La Roca, played with Elvin Jones, Miles Davis's group, appeared on 'Big Fun' album, among others

1945 Death - Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," and 10 others, hanged

1943 Event - 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others

1942 Event - Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress

1937 Event - 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death

1937 Event - Karl Radek and 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge

1929 Birthday - Chris Kenner, born in Kenner, near New Orleans, Louisiana, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others

1922 Event - Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin

1909 Birthday - Jean Berger, born in Hamm, Germany, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, studied with Paris' Louis Aubert, taught at Middlebury College, University of Colorado at Boulder, among others

1895 Event - Jose Marti and others leave New York City for invasion of Spanish Cuba

1893 Event - Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud

1847 Death - Governor Bent, 5 others in U.S. occupation, killed by revolt in New Mexico

1830 Event - Joseph Smith and 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, New York

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